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Greg Toppo

Greg Toppo is a longtime journalist who spent 15 years as USA Today’s national education writer. He is the author of the 2015 book The Game Believes In You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter.

A 2016 Yale University Poynter Fellow and a 2010 Spencer Fellow at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, he now sits on the Spencer board. A former high school and elementary school teacher, he taught journalism at Northwestern University in Qatar from 2020 to 2021.


 

Jim Tracy

Jim Tracy, Ph.D., MBA, has been the head of several independent schools as well as president of an innovative teacher’s college founded in collaboration with MIT.

He is currently Senior Advisor to the Executive Team at Jobs for the Future, a senior scholar in the Center for Character and Social Responsibility at Boston University’s School of Education, and a member of the advisory board at MassRobotics.